I’ll say this, you’re certainly a piece of .

Jeff

Going to college to provide a better life for my child than I ever had.. not taking responsibility for my actions.

You’re so right.

Why weren’t you doing the right thing and providing for your child instead of relying on the government. One must be responsible for their actions, no matter what the cost. You criticize a lot, but should look in the mirror.

Jeff

dad, fuggetaboutit. lifetime republican, retired cop, ultra conservative. he refuses to even listen to anything other than GOP talking points. this is not unexpected.

but! my mother and her brother (and his entire family) have become motivated as never before by this election. not only are they voting for obama, they have actually DONATED to his campaign — something they have never done before.

i am looking forward to an obama landslide today.

fingers crossed!

Nearly all of my family is voting for Obama, except my parents.. and one of my brothers ( I think).

My dad(72 yrs old) actually used the same words to describe Obama that I use to describe McCain: ‘He’s a blithering idiot!’ (of course my dad’s taxes will go up under the Obama tax plan)

My mom won’t tell any of us who she’s voting for, a sure sign she’s a McCain supporter. Very, very active Southern Baptist, watches only local affiliate news, believes whatever is said there or in the local paper. Asked me last week if I thought Obama was really ‘natural born’ and did I think he could be the antichrist?

She already voted early in NC, and says she voted for ‘Goofy, all the way down’.

I, being a moderate myself, enjoy a view from outside the party lines and tend to take a neutral stance on most subjects until I can make a reasonable judgment of my own. My problem with radicals on either side of the fence is a tendency for them to be unable to listen to those with differing views or explain their own view points in a logical manner. Believe in whatever you wish to believe in but when I ask you why you feel that way, please have a reason to back up your viewpoint and should I offer a counter-argument do not dismiss it simply because it does not groove with your way of thinking. Instead, open your ears and truly listen to what might be a completely valid response that could in turn affect your point of view on matters.

because they both hunt moose.

*sigh*

anyway, i have not spoken with them for over a month now (and they have not spoken to me, either, mind you) because i finally requested that she stop sending me political forwards that were false and slanderous (regarding any of the cnadidates) and to please use snopes or factcheck before she forwards things. which apparently made me the “enemy” and we are now in a familial cold-war.

politics will be the death of me this year.

Her mother got pregnant at 18 and needed help from the Government. They gave her food and shelter and after 2 years of letting her care for her child, sent her to school to get training to get a better job than she could have had with no training.

She votes Republican (if she votes), in part because she doesn’t want her tax dollars going to some “dirtbag welfare queen”. When I say “oh, like you where?” .. well.. you can imagine.

Now, my child spends significant time with me, and I engage her in the political process. I ask her about things that are going on in the world, how she feels about certain things, what she thinks is right, decent. I also teach her to think critically so she can pick apart logical fallacies when someone brings them to her. I think those are important skills in general.

My 16 year old child watched the VP debate and just about dropped her jaw at times while Palin was talking. It tickled me to hear her say “Did she just manage 20 words and not actually say anything?”. Then came “how the hell do you go to a debate and say you aren’t going to answer questions?”

So my very open minded child has to spend every other week with her mom. And on occasion, her step dad is home (he volunteered for active duty, again, once his baby was born). He’s a hard core white trash Republican. He actually said to her “I’d rather have a hooters chick as president than some damn black muslim!”. … when my daughter said “well, that’s pretty racist of you, don’t you think?” he said.. “I’m not racist, I hate all of ‘em!”.

Not once during their …. discussion did he defend McCain or Palin, he simply tossed out all the right-wing talking points about Obama. Muslim, Ayres, Socialist, etc etc. And when he wasn’t able to sway her, he asked her “what the hell do you even have an opinion for anyway?”. Apparently, 16 year old young adults aren’t supposed to be thinking, yet.

At one point her mother barked at her “why don’t you just call your dad and ask him what you should say!”. Well, that doesn’t sit well with someone that thought they had their own opinions, nor is it fair bring such things up during a conversation, even one you’re losing. And it’s pretty annoying to me that 2 adults were ganging up on my child instead of trying to have a rational discussion. Of course, that’s what Palin is trying to do, bring about more of that divisiveness between parties.

So my conflict is mostly that my beautiful daughter with a brilliant mind is subjected to low brow redneckedness on a regular basis.

My parents on the other hand are “gritting their teeth and voting for McCain”. I’ve never heard of them voting for a democrat, so I’m not surprised. My mother actually started to argue the “we aren’t even sure if he’s a US citizen” Obama talk. “Well it’s not a real birth certificate, it’s a certificate of live birth.” So? Mom, I can name quite a few people who don’t still have their original certificate and had to request a copy (my husband for one). They look EXACTLY like the one from Obama. Why the demand for a conspiracy? For my parents I don’t think it’s race based, they are just conservative in their politics.

Lara Amber

If an illegal Arabic lesbian immigrant in an “I Heart Saddam” t-shirt carrying a Planned Parenthood banner collapsed on their doorstep, they would carry her in, feed her, let her stay in the guest room, find her an immigration attorney, take her to the Mary Kay salon, get her a job, sneak new clothes into her bags, and manage to ignore everything about her they didn’t understand.

Go figure. Tomorrow my father-in-law and I will cancel out each other’s ballots.

Of course, my family dynamic isn’t like most people’s, I realize. I get away with things that would create real problems elsewhere. I’m the oldest son and the only one who pursued an education, and I spend a lot of time trying to understand things in some detail. All of which means that in a Southern working class environment, I have a lot of traditional heft in my corner.

you in-laws would have serious issues classifying me then. I’m a registered republican and a non-christian. (I already voted for Obama this election even as a republican).